Want Quotes

Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s.

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it. They were under the heel of the French... and they got together and swore a pact to the devil.

If you want a president who will make things better in the African-American community, you are looking at him. You take a look!

Now, look, it's true, Americans do want leaders that will come to Washington, D.C. and work together to get things done, but that comes with a very important caveat, it depends what they're trying to do.

We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.

I don't want to treat my fans like they are stupid.

I'm not a happy-ending person. I want to know what happens once Cinderella rides off with Prince Charming.

I have a very steadfast tendency to parent myself, to monitor my development into the person I want to be. I've tried to keep the corruption minimal.

When you want a thing done, 'Don't do it yourself' is a good motto for Scoutmasters.

If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.

There are times in my life when I just want to be by myself.

The Russians and the Chinese have been absolutely clear they don't want to see Iran with a nuclear weapon.

I just want to make sure I have a sense of balance between work and life, because work is my life and the lines can get really blurry.

People don't always want to have females as leaders.

Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.

You can work really hard, but if you're not training in the right way you're not going to improve and get to the level that you want to.

I absolutely want to have a career where you make'em laugh and make'em cry. It's all theater.

A film set is really delicate and people treat you very very well if you're an actor because they want you to be as comfortable as possible for you to do your work, but it really is just one in a team of many and usually 150 people.

I get crazy in a bookstore. It makes my heart beat hard because I want to buy everything.

God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.

Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.

If you want to rear financial blessings, you have to sow financially.

The last thing family and friends want is for you to spend money on them that you don't have or that you can't really spare.

Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

I don't want to be an action star, an action star's life is so short. I want my life to get longer, I want my career to get longer.

I want to walk through life instead of being dragged through it.

When you're young, you look at television and think, there's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.

I really want to understand the mind so I can be more comfortable with the way people are. Being comfortable with people is incredibly important.

You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.